Our correspondent Melissa Gira and former contributor Megan McCarthy have successfully infiltrated the controversial Girl Geek Dinner, and pictures will be plentiful if this first photograph is any indication. Updates as they come in via SMS.

6:52pm PST Room is packed to capacity.

6:53 Cyan [Banister, founder of Zivity]: Her hope is that this event creates more engineers.

7:00 Any kerfuffling about porn has mellowed into a slideshow about the Facebook platform API. Just like any typical tech networking event, a pitch is difficult to sex up, and that's just fine.

7:14 If anything, there's likely more porn talk going on across town at the "Girl Geek Revolution" counter-event, promoted as a porn-free alternative.

Our eagle-eyed correspondent spots a rare Chanel handbag.

7:18 Ostentatious purses, shiny patent heels in the minority. Most in sweaters, flats and not much Twittering, either.

7:22 For a woman-centric San Francisco event, way more South Asian women than the typical "inclusive" yadda yadda.